Musk then announced that he was "going to go to YouTube" and take questions from a blogger there who had previously gotten Musk's approval to ask a question on the call via a Twitter campaign.

RBC Capital Markets analyst Joseph Spak: The first question is related to the Model 3 reservations. "We're going to go as long as there are good questions to answer", he said of the question and answer phase of the call. First, Musk stated that the two analysts he opted to ignore were attempting to justify their Tesla short thesis.

In a weird conference call, the iconoclastic CEO described concerns about Tesla'scapital requirements as "boring" after the company, which also makes solar technology, reported a record loss of $709.6 million, or $4.19 each share, in the first quarter ended March 31.

Short-sellers look for profit by selling borrowed shares with the hope of purchasing them back later at a smaller price.

Tesla gained 3.4% to $294.09 on Friday.

After offering his explanation on Twitter, Musk changed topics and tweeted instead that the next batch of the Boring Company's "Not a Flamethrower" flamethrower would be arriving just in time for the "short burn of the century".

The outspoken CEO spent the following 20 minutes speaking with Galileo Russell, a retail investor and host of the YouTube channel HyperChance TV, who convinced Musk on Twitter to allow him on the call despite it being reserved for analysts, investors, and the media.

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